Posted by bednarma on Wednesday, September 27, 2017 in News.

[center]A Program with Raoul Peck| Wednesday, October 18| 4:10 p.m. | Sarratt Cinema[/center]

[center]Haitian filmmaker Raoul Peck’s 2016 documentary, I Am Not Your Negro, was based on James Baldwin’s unfinished manuscript “Remember This House” and narrated by Samuel L. Jackson. The film examines the lives and deaths of civil rights leaders Reverend Martin Luther King, Jr., Medgar Evers, and Malcolm X, as well as Baldwin’s writings and reflections on the U.S. civil rights movement. The film was nominated for an Academy Award. Peck’s large body of work also includes Lumumba (2000), Sometimes in April (2005), and The Young Karl Marx (2017). His campus visit is cosponsored by several Vanderbilt University departments and programs. Additionally, Peck’s films Lumumba and I Am Not Your Negro will be screened on October 4 and October 16 respectively, at Sarratt Cinema at 7:30 p.m. Professor Moses Ochonu will lead a discussion with audience members following the film Lumumba and Professors Jen Fay and Hortense Spillers will lead a discussion following the showing of I Am Not Your Negro[/center]